Management Reporting & Planning

Description:

• Prepare base quarterly forecasts and annual/3-year plan for assigned division(s), support cost centre and department business partner assumption modeling and integration of top-down budgeting guidance with bottom-up cost centre rollup, which includes Workforce Planning, General & Administrative Costs, Investment Related Transaction Costs and External Management Fees and supports Capital Plan and Project Finance.

• Work with the Senior Manager and functional partners to assess expenditure drivers and savings levers for both fixed, variable, discretionary and critical initiative spend. Gather relevant and complete data, drivers and assumptions to develop what-if scenario models and perform multi scenario analysis to support operating and financial decisions.

• Prepare board and executive management recurring and ad-hoc reporting and presentations and applicable material. Support preparation of internal partners (CFO/FMR leadership, divisional departments leaders and cost centre managers) presentations, materials and applicable communications as related to results, forecast and budget and ad-hoc analysis.

• Analyze financial performance of assigned division(s), identifying key drivers of variances and financial implication of business activity changes / assumption revisions and their impact on forecast and annual budget.

• Develop overall “so what, now what” insight, make connections to divisional priorities, KPI’s and other metrics and provide recommendations for budget management and mitigation opportunities.

• Lead financial models to support forecasting, budgeting and reporting to develop insights into cost structures to support prioritization decisions and strategic business decisions.

• Support ongoing peer benchmarking and related analysis to help provide insights, develop top-down guidance and drive business outcomes based on performance / results relative to peers.

• Contribute to maturing the overall enterprise forecasting and budgeting process, including supporting organizational change within the team and functional and operating divisions, bringing in standard methodologies for the forecasting and budgeting processes and effectively handling timelines and expectations.

• Reinforce culture of cost consciousness, cost clarity and cost management.